Videos of all presentations at Open Repositories 2015 (June 2015). Including a one hour keynote on bot indexing of repositories, from Anurag Acharya, the maker of Google Scholar. Audio in .mp3 (36Mb) | Slides in .pdf.

New long interview with Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR, on repositories. With a strong focus on discoverability as seen from a broad strategic perspective. From the intro and questions…

“locating and accessing content in OA repositories remains a hit and miss affair, and while many researchers now turn to Google and Google Scholar when looking for research papers, Google Scholar has not been as receptive to indexing repository collections as OA advocates had hoped. … 15 years after the Santa Fe meeting they [researchers] still find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to search effectively in and across OA repositories”

From the interview…

… “mega-journals” are essentially repositories with overlay services. We should be participating in projects that demonstrate the added value of repositories and repository networks across the research life cycle.” (Kathleen Shearer)

I had a quick look at the full list of Schema.org tags, which are now available in Google CSEs. They can be used to filter the CSE’s site list, serving to “Restrict pages from the above site list to only those that contain [chosen] Schema.org types”. Handy if you have a huge single site of HTML/CSS/XML that you can grep, and you want to prepare it for selective CSE search without having to juggle directories and file names.

It looks to me like those tagging open access scholarly articles would need to be able to chain Schema.org tags into something like…

CreativeWork: ScholarlyArticle: TransferAction: DownloadAction: GiveAction:

Whereas paywall publishers might need something like:

CreativeWork: ScholarlyArticle: TransferAction: DownloadAction: SellAction:

But at present there seems to be only the basic undifferentiated…

CreativeWork: ScholarlyArticle:

Even if there were workable OA additions to Schema.org, there would still the huge problems of: i) persuading people to add the tags to all their ongoing content at the article level, and to do so correctly and consistently; and ii) to have them go back and accurately tag perhaps two decades or more of existing open access articles.